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The story of Maynard Keenan James Winery Caduceus (pronounced Kah-dew-see-us) is being told through the lens in the new film Blood into Wine Directed by Ryan Page & Christopher Pomerenke. Here’s the trailer:

Blood Into Wine
The film will be screened tomorrow night in the Bay Area at the Viz Cinema during the Noise Pop Film Festival [...]

The infamous story finally comes to an end, as the main suspect in the horrible wine warehouse fire in Vallejo, Mark Anderson, plead guilty and will be sentenced in January.
Thanks to this plea, I won’t need to testify. Whew
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It was announced today that wine.com has released it’s API, which is the framework that allows third party websites to link to it’s extensive online database. This means that some wine related website’s will choose to incorporate information from Wine.com into their site, allowing for more extensive information to be delivered directly to the end [...]

When budgets are tight, retailers adapt, and in the wine industry, it’s the overpriced wines that need to make the concession.
Among the more eyebrow-raising deals he’s seen in the past several weeks have been half bottles of Joseph Phelps Insignia Napa cabernet 2002, Wine Spectator magazine’s wine of the year, wholesaling for a mere $10 [...]

You never know what might happen after you click the publish button. In a post that appeared nearly 4 years ago, this site covered a piece of news that shocked the wine community on the suspected arson of a facility in Vallejo that housed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of wine. The latest developments [...]

Forego that afternoon cup of Joe for a more relaxing glass of wine at Starbucks 15th Ave. Coffee & Tea. The Uber Caffeine dealer opened it’s first location under the new name and will serve from a rotating wine list priced from $5- $7 a glass and beer offerings from $4-$5 at 3 test stores [...]

As with all studies of wine and your health moderate consumption is key, this time to reduce the risk of contracting Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina found that the participants that had 1 to 2 glasses of wine per day of the group of over 3,000 seniors over 75, the [...]

No notes from Winexpression, however, 18 brave souls did belly up to the bar and taste dog food alongside various types of pâté and other ground up meat to see if they could pick it out from the line up. The result? Only 3 of the 18 people that participated were able to correctly identify [...]

You’ve heard it all of your life, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” And most likely, as you’ve applied that principal throughout your life, you’ve realized it really is good advice. That Pad Kee Mao you wouldn’t have touched a few years ago? It’s now become something you crave ever since you [...]

Columbia Crest, the maker of some very nice value wines in Washington State, has announced a partnership with Food Network star Bobby Flay to promote the second annual “Flayvors of Washington” video cooking demonstration contest. The winner will receive a prize package valued at over $5,000 USD, and a chance for one-on-one cooking time with [...]